Heres jimmy kimmel [ cheers and applause ] jimmy thank you very much. Very kind. Welcome. Hello, brooklyn. Thats great. Please sit. Whats that behind me . Very nice. Sit, sit, relax, relax. Thats very kind. I miss you already. Thank you for leaving the tiny apartments you share with five roommates to be here tonight. [ laughter ] this is closing night for us at the Brooklyn Academy of music, its very sad. [ cheers and applause ] i want to tell people across the country, this borough of brooklyn is unlike any other place on earth. Im going to miss everything about it. Except alternate side parking. [ laughter ] theres so much character. You can feel it in every place you go. In l. A. Our most historic landmark is the sunglass hut at the sherman oaks galleria. So its different here. I dont know if you can tell. My suits pulling a little, ive eaten so much this week. I want to thank all the many restaurants and coffee shops and doughnut shops and diners and ice cream places, all the many
I am the Vice President of Public Programs here at the New York Public Library purposes of privilege for the library to host tonights program celebrating mike wallace new book. The longawaited sequel to his previous book goff of. Picks of the story at the turn of the last century with his son paralleled growth and expansion and consolidation when infrastructure was developed and many institutions were founded including the New York Public Library. Incidentally the we are were all seated it is part of the reservoir there is a great before and after illustration in the book and it is a special honor to host but only because of the importance of the book and subject matter but because mike wallace to is a fellow and a scholar in Residence Research to a good deal of the book right here in the archives the Archival Holdings are vast and include collections from the New York Times and the waldorf astoria even your city miscellaneous. [laughter] but it is the of painstaking work of scholars t
Us to host this program not only because of the importance of the book and the subject matter but also because the fellow in the library for scholars in residence at the allen Room Research a good deal of the book right here in the library archives, the Archival Holdings on the new york city history are of course that cant include such collections as the record of the history and the collection called new york city miscellaneous 1614 to 1975. [laughter] that is the painstaking work of historians and scholars that bringsch the content of those collections to light and into Public Discourse through meticulously researched books like greater gotham and so we are thrilled to welcome you back to the library to share your research with us and to moderate the conversation, we are honored to have another distinguished historian writer and scholar with the pieces of the new yorker where hes a staff writer he provides a steady stream of intellectual and emotional nourishment to many of us seekin
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